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I ESTABLISHED 1826. MACAON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES. VOL. LX, NO. 6. [US FROM WASHINGTON It'EEDINGS OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS. Ky Debate In the Senate t rer the FUh- l|e« (Jueatlon—Speech of Mr. Euitli it SHrer—The Commerc Dill —Dull Day In the Uoum. hhinoton, January 18.—Mr. Sherman led the chair of the Senate to-day. ong the petitions presented and ap- •istely referred was one by Mr. Coke the merchants of El Esso,. Texas, ining of smuggling on the Mexican _ and urging Congress to take meas- «-io put a stop to it. Am .in: the reports submitted from com- ftfe' g, was one by Mr. Cullom, from the yKiittee appointed to investigate the sub- 4fof the regulation of freight and passen- 2Kt ( . s on railroad and water routes, ’th the report, Mr. Cullom submitted a ffli gnlatiog inter-state commerce, which I®ct(l might l»e referred back to the com- uitte. and that tho committee be continued. ’heSrefiuest was grunted and a resolution nisse-1 ordering printed 5,000 copies of the S:|>minittee report and the testimony taken • Xfnreit. .... , Mr. Harrison offered a »esolution to ad- Jiit Hon. G. C. Moody, of Dakota, to the loor of the Senate during this session. Mr. Cockrell objected, and the resolution re in over. 4 . , Mr Voorhees presented a memorial trom he Btizcns of Iflontaua praying that that Territory may be admitted as a Htato into ,he Huion, and also introduced.!! bill pro IS®;; for such admission. Mr Hsrrison pave notice that on Fnday c-sMonld call the Dakota bill. Ml. Eustis add reseed tho Senate upon the lilrft question. “tVe were told in 1878,” he '“••that we could not become a bimeti- iation without au srrangement with nations establishing tho relution of direr to cold, and that tho tilrsr to gold, ond that the silver coinage egisl ition then proposed would flood this jouiiry with silver; thnt gold would bo ex port! I in large quantities, and that our lectiritii s would consequently depreciate, rhef gold men then predicted universal hs as sure to come. Since ime actual experience had taken place "dilution. The law of 1878 had been years in operation, and none of the ctions had been realized. Silver and were still full legal tenders. The __ ilcnt had told tis that there was not eno«;;h silver now in circulation to cause lilnyliDrusincss, and that the whole amount now coined might after a time be absorbed ^^eople without spprehonsion, but that is 'the ceaseless stream that threatened overflow.’ We were to under- >1, then, that the silver dollar n honcat dollar when absorbed by people, but a dishonest one when m1 to the bondholders. Were we to a double standafd| of morality?—one people and the-other for the bond- i? Would any department of the rnment arrogate to itself the arbitrary er of establishing an unjust discrimina- ugainst tho people and an indefensible riiisin to the bondholders? If so, how d the people accept that department aa guardian of their interests? We had informed that any unusual expor- ation of gold had occurred, nor that gold null silver had parted company. Wo I new bonds had not deprecated, they worth more to-day than in 1878. 1878 we had coined $382,000,000 of and $215,000,000 of silver. Our flnan- legislation had received the approval of country, and wo should have the cour- to maintain our position and to surren- only to forco of argument. It would in appalling admission to make to the (try, if we were to create a .nn'.il policy every few years, then destroy it, merely because persons iu authority had chosen to differ with "It had never been proposed by the 1 States,” Mr, Eustis continued, “to rol the vnlue of silver bullion in Lon- ; neither was it in onr power to con- it there. Rut our legal tender coin ^Hiid not bavo its value varied by the price of silver bullion in other coun- ras. It was sufficient for us to knotv the present silver dollar contained the same number of grains of silver that it hnd always coutainod, from 1722 to the prw nt time. It had proved satisfactory to the American people, and nothing more I be said in its favor. Mr. Enatis re ed at some length the history of our ago, and also the financial history of luce, whose example, he said, we could afford to follow. Franco had a total r coinage in circulation, includ- French, Belgian nnd Italian silver, HO,1100,000, without including snbsidi* coin. If thnt amount could lie absorb- ithout uneasiness or disturbance iu nee, let our executive officers explain to why the name process of absorption could safely occur in this country. After ty years of experience, France is deter- ed to maintain her policy. At the >cnt rate of coinage in tho United States mild hike us fifteen years to make onr coinage equal in volume to of the French coinage, and it iild tako us fifteen years ach the existing volnme of five franc os now in circulation in France. Our illation, resources and enterprise being iter than that of any European country, y could we not, with perfect safety, ap- xiinntc the financial condition of France? tre was but one reason; that reason was >t in Franco all departments of the gov- iment wero in hearty sympathy with the fin 1 policy of the country and ac- tit ly co-opented with the people to “tain it, because in France “public office ^Inblic trust,' while it would seem that in i iis country that patriotic maxim pre- yw only to a limited extent. The result <4<he congressional policy of coinage bad er been fully tested according to its e import and spirit, because our Exec- e Department had in its practice mani- ■1 on unfriendliness to that policy and by lity and discrimination bail retained it. ...t department had not discriminated vor of the bond-holders as against the pie it represents, ss to finance, it would e been entitled to more respect.” In icluaion Mr. Eustis said: "If the disloyal ictice of the executive department in de- war against silver coin, which is a government, in belittling its useful ly,. in depreciating its existence, and in |itingotliara to believe it is the deform- 1offspring of legislative imbecility and Vt ia to continue, then some of the Is that have been predicted may coma to «; but those evils will not be attribute- 1 to any vice in onr financial system but i “he practice and assertions of theexecn- c department in dishonoring and diacred* i E coin which it U their dity to sustain with all the influence, aid nnd power of their official authority.” Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to infotm the Senate what proportion of the ten millions of United States bonds called for payment February 1, 1888, arc held by National Banks ns a basis for circulation and bow much by each bank. Mr. Edmunds inquired whether Mr. In galls thought the Senate had any right to coll on the Secretary of the Treasury for nny information. “I have seen it ques tioned in the newspapers,” Mr. Edmunds added. Mr. Ingalls supposed Mr. Edmunds wns liardiy serious in asking such a question up on i'ne resolution offered. Mr. Edmunds remarked that he was per fectly serious. Mr. Ingalls said he understood thnt a large portion of the bonds to be called in February were held by national banks, and that instead of nny money being paid out of the treasury there was to be a process of book-keeping by which a large amount of circulation was to be retired and the cur rency to that extent contracted. Ho thought it concern.,-<1 the country to know if such was the fact. Mr. Ingalls said he did not know whether tho Senato bad my right to call on the Secretary of the Treas ury for any information in his possession, bnt at least the Senate should know wheth er it was entitled to ask for information. Mr. Cockrell asked whether the law did not require the Secretary of the Treasury to call in outatandmg bonds in a certain order, and whether the Secretary of the Treasury could adopt any different order. Mr. Ingalls said his resolution involved no implication against the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Cockrell repeated bis queation. Mr. Ingalls said there was no doubt that Mr. Cockrell's statement was true. He (Ingalls) merely wished to know what proportion of money now in the Treasury was to be paid out for bonds called for February 1. Mr. Edmunds thought the resolution a proper one. In any event, the point mode by him with what had been regarded, per haps, os a sense of humor, was made in or der that the SeDnte might be sensible of the foot that the public press had largely given out the idea that Congress had no right know anything that was being done in any of the executive departments. He merely wanted the Senate to vote with its eyes thus opened on tho snBject. Mr. Morrill thought the resolution cf suf ficient importance to have it go over until to-morrow. It went over accordingly. Mr. Tyre offered a resolution relating to fisheries, the preamble to which recites that: Whesexk. The President had recommended Con* are., hi provide for a commlaelon to aetUa and ad- Juat the fisheries question; and whereas. the flab* erica question had been settled for tan rears past, uu««r the treaty of WtthifiEten *t» loss of ft&fioo.- 000 tn money, and the remission of IS,000;000 of duties In that period; and whereas, that treaty bad resulted In the Increase of sou vessels and 1,000 seamen to tbs Canadian fishing lleata with s Cor responding decrease In the flehlng fleets of the United Staten, therefore, he it Resolved. That In the opinion of the Henate a commission clothed with the powers referred to ought not to be provided for by Congress. Mr. Eilmnnda was glad that the resolu tion was introduced, but thought a word necessary in regard to the action the President had with Her Majesty's govern ment, after the time had expired when, according to the provision of law, the whole fishery matter and customs matter connected with it had absolutely termi nated. It seemed to be slated, he said, in the report juat laid on the desks of the Senators that the President, without any advice or consent of tho Senate, had en tered into arTUDgementa with Her Majesty's government by which citizens of tbs United States were accorded certain rights in fish ing in British waters, which by the existing treaties and Ibwb of nations they would not otherwise have, and that British sub jects were accorded reciprocal rights in tho United States. If that was what was meant liy the statements of the report (nnd he spoke of it with reserve be- cuuso lie had only just seen the report), it certainly presented a very grave ques tion as to the exertions of the executive power in the matter’ of entering into ar rangements with foreign powers uffecting the rights of citizens in the United States iu face of the constitutional provision that gives the President power to make treaties “by and with the advice and consent of the the Senate.'! It may be, be added, that the arrangement referred to waa not a treaty, bnt in respect to the end to be obtained by it, it was what a treaty would be and what bad never been aupposed could be done without a treaty. Mr. Morgan inquired whether any right had been given British fishermen by the ar rangement referred to that they would not have had without it. Mr. Edmunds replied that if the state ments of correspondents meant what they seemed to mean (and he had re td some of them), the powers granted could only be granted, os he understood the constitution, by a treaty mode by the President in s con stitutional way. He only called attention to the matter, and did that in the heat pos sible spirit, as he desired'to apeak of the President with every respect. Mr. Morgan mid that under the resolu tion that hud passed Congress instructing the President to terminate the fishery treaty, we happened to fix a time in the ddle of the fishing season, and after peo ple had gone to grett) expense in prepara tion for the work of fishing. It would have been a great injury, he said, to stop the work of the fleets iu the middle of their cruises, and perhaps the 1 resident in con ference with the British authorities had strained a point in order to accommodate the interests and provide for the welfare of that large class of people interested. Mr. lloor thought he represented the con stituency most largely interested in the fishing question, and, h far as he under stood, onr fishermen had not discovered that the arrangement referred to had been made in their interests. The fishermen of the United States do' not agree with the Senator from Alabama. Mr. Dawes said that a year's notice in advance hod been given to everybody that the privileges alluded t > would terminate at a given time. Therefore “suddenness” of emergency has not rendered the arrange ment necessary. Mr. Frye called attention to the fact that the whole arrangement waaclaimed to have been made in the interest of American fishermen, yet no American fisherman hod asked or proposed such an arrangement. That hod been left for Mr. West, the Brit ish minister to do. For ten year* Great Britain bod been protecting the interests of American fishermen. The people of New England, Mr. Fr/e continued, desired no further commission to settle the fisheries question. The United States had gained nothing by the work of the former commis sion, though Canada had gained immensely by it. The people of tho United States asked nothing of Great Britain. Mr. Frye characterized the "arrangement” referred to oh a most marvelous piece of business in the way of diplomacy that onr history could show. Our fishermen, he said, do not ask the British minister to interfere to protect them, but they do ask that the United States shall be self-assert ive, and that ia all thnt they ask. Onr fiidiermen ask that this great republic of fifty-six millions of people sbull protect her fishermen in their rights. They de- mnnd that instaad of yielding to Great Britain, as lias been done every time, we shall atand by onr rights. The fishermen, he said, knew as well as he knew that Great Britain dare not undertake to defend tbe course of the Canadians in taking eighty United States vessels into colonial ports and trying and condemning them on the evidence of colonial witnesses who stood on shore and looked ont to sen nnd guessed that tbe vessels were within thu three-mile limit Let the United States bo what they were able to be, and not be frightened to death by the ghosts of dead treaties. Our executive officers were trembling at the ghost of the Clqyton-Bul- wer treaty which Great Britain had regarded dead for a quarter i f a century. Let us assert onr rights, said Mr. Frye, and there will be no war, hut our people on tho Canadian coast will have tlieir rights. Never was a people in the wide world no under a mortgage to keep peaco with.,the United States as Great Britain is to day. Mr. Morgan expressed astonishment at tbe vigor ana zeal with which the question was argued. The ac tion of the government, ho said,- has not been laid before tbe Senate, except in an informal way.' No just criticism ot the President or the Secretary of ilaced before ienU hying increase of crcafter ap- arnuigement .spoken nsurpation of power on tbe'part of the ex ecutive department and that the American fisheries were not to bo benefited by it. He thought tbe debate hnd bronght the matter of private greed into the Senate and placed the United States in an undigni fied position before the world. Bnt it did not follow, he said, that because commis sions appointed under former administra tions bad mode a bad treaty that the com missioners appointed under the present administration would make a bad one. He did not think it necessary for ns, when we wnntod to speak of Great Britain about any thing, to man our ships and load our gnna. There was much in war, he said, thnt was not to be approved, os this country was prepared to testify. He was for the sway of reason, for tbe influence of justice and truth in f inference to war or nnything that looked iko war. The Benae of self-respect, on the port of the United States government, did not require it to buckle on its armor when ever it went oat to meet Great Eriluiu or any other government After further debate, the resolntion went over, Conger giving notice that he would be heard on it to-morrow. Tho judicial salary hill wns the Henate, the reading atnai thnt of Mr. Morgan limitini salary to cuses of 1 (judges pointed.” Tito amendment was rojocted. Mr. Call offered an amendment providing for the removal of judges for drunkenness. Mr. Edmnnda thought drnnkennssa on the bench a high misdemeanor which wonid enmo under a provision of the law, and that Mr. Call's amendmont was nanec- esaary. The amendment was rejected. The hill cams to a vote and was passed. It gives all United States district court judges $5,080 n year nnd prohibits them from ap pointing their relatives to office in , their conns. The bill providing for the Presidential conrt was then placed before tbe Senate. At 4:45 p. m. the Senate went into ex ecutive aesaiou; at 5812 the door* were re opened and tho Senate adjourned. Yesterday In the House. WlsnisoTox, January 18.—In the absence of the Speaker, the House was called to or der by the clerk, und a note from Mr. Car- liale was rend, designating Mr. Springer, of Illinois, ns Speaker pro tern, for tlxe day. A resolntion was adopted granting to the committee on elections authority to have printed in the papers in the varioi tested election cases nnd to sit during the' sessions of the House. Under the call of States, a nnmber of bills and resolutions were introduced and referred. By Norwood, of Georgia, for the erection of public bnihlings st Brunswick and Sa vannah. By Mr. Candler, of Georgia, repealing statutes which impose taxes on note* of Bute banks. State banking association* and municipal corporations. By Mr. Murphy, of Iowa, for tlie relief of William McGsrrahan, of California, tbe New Iberia mine claimant. By Mr. Weaver, of Louisiana, resolntion calling on tbe Secretary of the Treasury for information os to the total amount applied to the sinking fund between Jnoe 30, 1884, and June 30. 1885, and under what date and in wbnt amount the samo was applied. By Mr. Strable, of Iowa (by reqntst), to provide for a uniform ballot box. By Mr. Hepburn, of lows, to create a board of commissioners of inter-Stale com merce. By Mr. Wolford, of Kentucky, granting a pension to kin. Moeklelial, tbe only sur viving granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. By Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, granting pensions to the survivors of tiro Mexican and Indian wars, and by Ur. Wadsworth, of Kentucky, tbe following, preamble and resolntion; Wmaxis. By the fourteenth section of tho set of Cufifircaa of February 11, lata, (now section 351 re* vised statutes), the sold dollar of the United States of 25 HdO Krai a* standard fineness Is muds tbs wait of value, and wbaraea the President on bis arceeeioo to office found each and all of full legal tender, Id Oliver and paper dollars of U.e United States, a nal In vml os to 35 Sdo grains of standard gold In transactions within the United States, therefore, Resolved, That tt becomes the duty of tbs Presi dent to use all lawful nt-ina In bia power to main tain thla equality cm the raluo of aocli dollars, and that. In tho optnlon of this bones he baa hitherto feltbfnUy and proparly endeavored to discharge that duty.f The Speaker pro fern thought that the resolntion prbperly belonged to the com mittee on coinage, weights and mens area. Wsrls worth remarked that it did not refer at ail to coinage, bnt involved the question as to whether ornot the President bod violated the law. He therefore moved that it be re ferred to the committee on judiciary. Mr. Weaver, of Iowa, moved it* reference to the committee on coinage, weights uui measure*. Agreed to by ye** 12U to u*ys By Mr. Col*, of Maryland, constituting ght hoot* * day’s work for g borent. Also prohibiting emp! convict labor. By Ur. Lovering, of Massachusetts, prohibit by constitutional amendment tho contracting of eonvict labor. By Mr. Hiscock, of New York, to repeal all InUroul revenue taxes on domestic tobacco. By Mr. Henderaon, of North Carolina, to prescribe the tenure of office for persons employed in the civil survioe and for the apportionment of appointments to public servio# among the Congressional districts or. a bssi* of population. By Mr Pettibone, of Tennessee, to pro mote peace among tli* nations by theestab- lishmei-i of an international tribunal some fixed principle of arbitration. Thera wero five hundred and ninety bills introduced coder the cull. An or.lor was made designating the 28th inst. oh the day for the delivery of eulogies upon the late Reuben Ellwood, ’ of Illinois, and the Honse then adjourned. Kyanpsia of tlm Commerce Dill WasmNoTox, January 18. The following is a brief synopsis of the bill to regulate commerce, reported from the Senate select committee upon inter-State railroad trans portation to-day by Senator Cullum: After sn l ift log the Blasses of catriera or rather kiiids ot traffic to which the regulations pre- scribod are to apply, and declaring thnt oil changes made by aueb carriers shall be reuKonablo, the preliminary sections aim to prohibit every vnrioty of nnjast discrimina tion, to prescribe Adequate penalties there for, nnd tovrovide for enforcement thereof in the courts of the United States. These flections include the requirement that all carriers stall afford reasonable fa cilities for the interchange of traffic with connecting lines and a prohibition of greater charge* for shorter than for longer distanoe, except When it can be affirmatively estab lished by the carrion that such chorgo does not constitute A DISGUSTED COLONY. State ^t4&tiom Anotherseetion hear that the arrangement JpokX of was ^Tpffimblonaot t^W^ tlieir Urifffl anu elassilleationH with tho inter-Steto commerce commiasion, and pro vides that they ahall be posted or otherwise published, bnt leaves to be termined by tho commiiwion the manner of publication and tho places at and between which rateu ahall be published. Provision ia made for inforcing the requirementH of tlio commis sion in these respects through the courts,and for the maintenance of ratee that may be thus published. Provision is also made for the appointment by the Prenident of three commissioners, to be confirmed by tho Senate, nnd several sections are devoted to prescribing tho duties of tbe commissioners and the manner in which complaints arc to bo investigated and prosecutions institnted under its direction when found necessary. Under these sections it provides to give the commissioners full power to obtain nil information necessary to the performance of its duties; to constitute it a board of arbi tration for adjudication of such difference between shipper and carriers as can be am icably settled through its intervention; to make ftrfindings of 'fact prima fade evi- deuce in all legal proceedings, and to pro vide for the prompt enforcement of its re commendations through the courts, if re sort to them should become necessary. The report of the commission accompanying the bill forms a printed volume of 216 ^Ttd'escrihes the varion* methods pro- nosed for railroad rcgnlation nnd di als at length with tho courao of railroad legisla tion in England and tho workings of the English Commissioners. It summarizes tho provisions of tho statutes of several States of the union relating to railroad reg ulation and seta forth at considerable length tbe result of the workings of State Commissioners. Returns of leading lines are tabulated to show the division of business among them, nnd tho comparative volume of State nnd inter-State traffic. Thesnbjcct of competition between waterways and rail roads is discussed briefly nnd tho conclu sion is reached that waterways arc most ef fective regulators of railway charges, and tlmt the emancipation of water is n national necef sity. Tbe improvement of the Missis sippi anil its tributaries is briefly nllmled to and warmly indorsed. Of the Hennepin canal, the commission says that the com merce of tho nation would derive fresh nnd continued advantages trom the construction of this canal Cheap transportation between Chicago and tho seaboards, report says, is assured by a line of free water communica tion open through tho great lakes, the Erie canal and tiro Hudson. No method has been suggested by which tho controlling in fluence of that water competition would extend over so wido a population nnd so productive a territory at so moderate an expense as by constructing this short canal of 74 miles, which would give the people of the Upper Mississippi States a direct water transit connection with all the States of tho Atlantic seaboard, and with Enropc. Tho necessity of this improvement is mode rnoro urgent by the high and oppressive rates of freight prevailing between the grain-producing States of tho northwest and Chicugo, os compared will the charges made between that point and tho Atlantic coast by the construction of this canal, nnd the grain-producing States would ho given that cheap transit which has now become necessary to enable them to successfully place their surplus products in foreign markets. Tho salary of each commissioner is fixed at $7,51)0 per annum, nnd tho commission ers first appointed are to continue in office for the term of two, three, four, five and six years respectively, beginning on tbe first day of July next, not more than three of whom shall bo appointed from the same political party, Dills Introduced In th. Senate, Waohixotox, Jantiaty 18.—Bills were in troduced in tho Senate to-day: By Mr. Hampton, authorizing the payment of any money found due the Hiate-s of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, South Caroline nnd the city of Baltimore for expenditures mode for military pur poses in the war of 1812. By Mr. Cutler, authorizing the Secretary of the treasury to deliver to the proper owners any silverware, jowelery, portraits or other nrticles in the Treasury, deposited in Jane, 18tt», in tho Treasury us property captured liy the United States during the into war. It further provides that this act shall be advertised for one year, and that all arti cles remaining in the Treasury after two jears shall bo sold at public auction. THE SCOTCH SETTLERS AT SARA SOTA BAY IN FLORIDA. The Promises Held Out br a Land. Com pany Turn Ont to lio Alluring but Dose—A Letter From One of tile Wronged Colonists. Letter In New York Tribune. Tho emigration of Scotch settiera to Flor ida, which excited so much attention a few weeks since, was originated in Scotland by J. 8. Talt, ot Edinburgh. Six or eight montbB ago Mr. Tolt wrote lettera to several Scottish papers, in some of which he had a controversy, and published n pamphlet en titled, “Emigration byColony of the Middle l” Florida was the State selected orange growing was the to be Hurled Alive. Woonnocg, Ont., January 18.—Recently a girl named Cullens died, ns ft was sup- rlwo re place. when the horrible discovery waa made that the girl had been buried alive. Her shroud had been torn into shreds; her knee* were drawn np to her chin; one of her arms was twisted trader bar head, and her features bora evidence of dreadful torture. Classes. from the first, ando^^P^^^^^H industry specially to lie conducted. MrH Ta'.t had made it a special point, in hi* I pamphlet, that for this industry a knowl edge of agriculture was unnecessary, and if auch knowledge had been acquired if wunldi have to be unlearned. He also represented that the region in which bo proposed to I locate the colony, was admirably adapted to track farming, and hod excellent and convenient markets; that the colonists, while their orange trees wove coming to the bearing age, which. with budded trees would occnpy four or fiyo years, could more than supper? themselves and families by track farming. Mr. Talt also distrib uted freely copies of the Florida nnmber of Descriptive America, a magazine published I in New York in January, 1885, in which [ Sarasota Bay, the place for his proposed colony, was mapped and highly spoken of as a paradise for sportsmen: carefully con- Icoaling tbe fact, whioh afterward trans- [pired, bet too late for the first oolonista, that the map and description was only an advertisement inserted nnd paid for by a l’hilodelphia company who were interested in these lands, nnd thnt the text of the mag azine said nothing about Sarasota Bay, the lands of whioh were not then on the mar ket. By these repreeentations and the posi tive assurance that he (Mr. Talt) had no connection with any land company or emi gration movement, and that his only mo tive was one of the purest philanthropy and s desire to help those who nad a moderate property from losing ail in the depressed [condition of trade in Scotland, he anceeed- nttmbcr Leeds ^loolony. These per sons, who wore intelligent and in comfort able circumstances, put the most implicit faith in Mr. Tait's statements and allowed themselves to be guidod absolutely by him. By bis advice they bought a tract of 8,000 acres of land on Sarasota Bay, which was represented aa a compact pieco four and a half miles in length ami varying in width. To this tract the name of Ormiston was given. For this land they wero chargod £i 10s.— $12.50 per acre. The company ooTenanted, in consid eration of other payments to lie mode by them, to have them carefully cored for on th- ir tom. to pnraida sbi w i uid iMglag for them in New York, should they havo to pssa the night there; to give them first- class passage to Fernandino, nnd thence by rail and steamer to Sarasota bay, and there to have honaea erected for them and fur nished for their accommodation on their ar rival, and to have a large store and ware house supplied with everything they conld possibly need in the way of furnitare and provisions, dress goods, etc., etc.—oil of [which was to be famished thorn at S Mrimo cost for six months af- -r their arrival. They nlso prom- ished that the Hon. Hugh Corley, a former land commissioner, and represented as the best judge of lands in Florida, wonid per sonally select for each colonist forty seres of land from this tract which should be of the best quality ot orange and market-gar den lands; and that suitable person* should be provided to instruct them in the proper cultivation of these lands. The colonist* were told that they conld grow sufficient vegetables and small fruits to support them selves and families in from three to four months; thnt they wonid be able to pay ex penses at tbe end of tbe first year, and that | they would have orange-grove* in fall bear- in five yean from their arrival. ^K'he party, consisting of 160 persons, men, women and children, some ffilO more expecting soon to follow, went on board the Fnrneasia in high glee, expecting to find everything to be according to 3lr. Toll's assurances on their arrival at the promised land. When they arrived in New York, instead of being taken at once to the Mallory steamer, they were driven ashore on the Anchor Line's pier at nearly 5 o'clock on a December evening in the midst of one of the severest and most drenching storms ot tbs season, to find their way as beet they might to hotels or other shelter. This cost the colonists £100. On board the Mallory steamer they fend better, were landed at Fernandina, and then e taken by rail to Cedar Keys, where they wen detained for Ifonr or five days, while Mr. Tail, who had joined them at Fernandina, went on to | Sarasota Bay to see that all was ready for them. Several of the company wished to nccompany him, bnt be seemed reluctant to have them, saying that the Florida peo ple were not prompt, and might not have completed the wont they were to do. A few volunteers insisted upon going, bnt mad* no report, or if they did, it did not reach Cedar Keys, and three or fonr days later the w hole company went forward. It was daring this delay that a few things came to light which shook their confidence in Mr. Tait He had d*cl*rud that he bad no intereat in or any connection with any land or emigration company ; that in this whole matter he had been entirely disinter ested and philanthropic and had no more interest in these lends than they had. They now learned that he and hia family were large shareholders in some of these great land companies, that he had bought the 50,000 acre* which the company now held from another Und company and sold it to them, and then bought the 6,000 acres which had been sold to the coloniaU at a price not exceeding $1 per acre, and had ■old to them at $12.60 por acre; and that the deeds which came professedly from the Florida Mortgage and Investment Com pany ware receipted for a* from him. They made the further startling discovery that he had never visited Sarasota Bay himself when he commended it to them so strongly and that the whole thing had been simply a land specnUtion. Tbe colonists finally set sail from the lit tle village of i ed.tr Koys for Sarasota Bay, where they landed after some difficulty, there being bat 5j feet of mm on the bar which closes Sarasota Bay, though they bad been assured there was nine. On their ar rival at the fatare town of Ormuton, they fonnd no village, not a honse or any signs of the erections of uny. A warehouse and storKu bouse for the company was build ing. but had as yot no roof. There wero scattered over a wide temtoiy three or four miserable hovels, occupied by the natives, where the decencies of life could not be ob served, nnd into which delicately reared women with tender children were packed like herrings in n box. A few bad bronght tents with them, and these were put in nso at once. Home made a rode shelter with tho loaves of the saw palmetto. The yonng men were huddled together in the roofleat store house. There was noappur nt attention of building houses. Tho provisions for sup plying them with food wero if possible still worse: there wa* one stove which had pipes extending to the roof of n hovel, nnd fre quently set it on fire, bnt eooking was al most impossible. There was flour in the ■tore and soda or boxing powder, bnt tho raw and sodden dough could not bo baked, and the children could not eat it, though pinched with hanger. Onoe a butcher rnmo along bringing a few pieces of the stringy, the goat-like Florida now; those were eagerly purchased, but konovor came again. No men were there to teach them how to work tho sail, tbe population was very email, and every man who ha 1 any land there was anxious to sell end get nway. The colonists had to hire such men os they conld meet to help them to look for their land. They had been assured that it was all within a distance of four nnd n half miles apart from each other, extending in radii from the storehouse of seven nnd n half miles each way. When fonnd they were good for noth ing. A considerable party walked from six to ten hoars in search of vegetables, or of any evidence of their having been grown, and conld not find as many ns would keep a Scotch family for a week. A Scotch gen tleman who has now returned to Edinburgh to expose the whole matter, had obtained one of the plots of forty acres selected by the Hon. Ilugh Corley as suitable for or- ango culture. He baa his land examined by an expert, and it was pronounced utterly worthless. In regard to track farming, the case was still worse, for it in said tlmt tho otange will grow, after a fashions where nothing else can; but if there ia an aero of the whole fi.CMO whicli could be profitably cultivate d with garden vegetables and small trait*, the writer has yet to see it. And oven if there were a few each ceres, the statement that any families could snpport themselves by their cultivation and sale is utterly false; for there is no market and no facilities for transportation. In northern Florida, with its numerous railroads and navigabio rivers, and a soil well adapted to these crops, the negroes are doing well in sending their track to Northern dtiee; bnt that is from 300 to 400 miles away from Sarr.soto Bay, and there eon never be any competition. Th« climate was not so delightful, even in midwinter, as has been represented. At New Y’esr it was 80° in tho shade at noon. On January 8 or 7 it was 20 ° above zero, and what orange trees there wero wero blighted nnd killed. Abaut threi nr fonr days after their arrival at Sarasota Bay Mr. Tut sent a cablegram to Tho Olasgow Her ald stating thnt the oolonista bod arrived and wero much pleased with the country and delighted with the arrangements which bad been made for tbeir reception. Ho signed this “Members of the Council," and appended tbe names of each, although bnt one hnd seen tho dispatch, and it ia not cer Other tain that he had. members of the colony heard of this, anil protested against such it falsehood being sent home, bnt they were sweetly told, “Oht it was n mistake; another cablegram has keen sent striking ont your names." That cablegram never reached its destination. Looking for sport, and remembering that this bay had been called the “sportcHumu's paradise,” some of tho best shots in tho party sallied ont in soarcb of game. They oonla fine no doer, no wild docks, and no other game except a few qnnil. Thera may bav* been some fish in the bay, and proba bly turtle on the distant keys, bnt they wen not equipped for these. They found they hud been grossly over charged in tbe price they bad pUd for the land. Near Tampa, fifty miles away, in n much better soil, with railways and steam ers to transport them and their produce to excellent market*, they conld tiny nil tho Und they wanted and mueh of it with im provements on it for $4.50 per acre. Bnt Mr. TUt was not satisfied with this exorbi tant price for hU land, bat bad oooptDad each oolonist to pay $5 or $25 for what were termed “general expenses,” though lio has never yet made a statement of what these “general expense*” were, though often requested to do so. Disheartened by this sUte of things the colonUts have determined to nbundon “Ormiston" as soon aa they can get away. It is not easy to do this, for the avenues of transportation are few and they are open at long intervals. The coming railroad which was to run to SarasoU Bay this spring U K t in the far-off fntare. No survey ha* en made for it, no company has projected it, and the tri-weekly line of steamers, or indeed any regular line, is equally in the dim distance. Yet twenty heads of familleH have already left the colony, and the reek will do ao as soon ss they can get away. Ur. TUt's course in tins matter has been, an outrage and crime against humanity and dessrvss severe punishment. He 1ms not only by his misrepresentations token from s Urge nnmber of families their bard earned money, but he baa imperilled their health, and if hU schemes had not been so soon ducovered, ho would in all probabil ity have caused their death. Tbe writer has no excuse to offer for himself or friends for allowing themselves to bo thus deceived by thu man; but be hopes by the simple state ment of these facU to deter others from be ing deceived in the same manner, and be would fain hope also that those eminent merchanU and bankers who have suffer. .1 their names to be need to prop up enter prises with whose reel character they were unacquainted may tako warning, lest they also bo held responiibla for deeds which they could not sanction. Jon* Lstnux, One of the Council. New You, January 15, 1886. Husband (to mother-in-Uw)— “I want to ahow yon what Agnes has bought me for Christmas. She has left the drawer un locked. She knows bow fond I am of Japanese work, and see! sho intended to •nrprise me with a dozen unique dinner plates.” Mother-in-Uw (sarcastically)— “Dinner pUtaal Those an button* for her new dress. I was with her when she bought them.” Little boy—Tha end of pa'a nose looks like it was afire, doesn’t it ms: Mother (with a sigh)-Yes. Litth boj Mh.it caused it, ma? Mother It visn the work of an incendiary.